Welcome to my blog.

OK, so I have sort of impulsively decided to do a Blog. Heck until the Iraqi invasion I wasn't even really aware what a blog was! I have been living in Santo Domingo for a little over a year. The experience has definitely been "interesting". I am living like a "local", meaning I am not in some ritzy apartment building, living large, but rather living in a small apartment in an "OK" part of town. My rent is 7,000 pesos per month which is currently less than 200 bucks. I can walk to the "Zona Colonial", which is the oldest city in the New World. I am a few blocks from the Malecon which is the main road, that is right on the Caribbean Sea. There are also some big hotels, casinos, discos and restaurants all within walking distance etc.

I have been working on a couple of websites related to the DR. One of them is basically a place to post video clips related to the Dominican Republic. I havebeen posting some travel related video clips and plan to add clips showing "slices of life". I hope to help people get a "taste" of life in the DR as well as info on traveling here.

I live with my "novia" and her soon to be 8 year old son. Getting used to living in a new country with all the cultural differences can be made altarnatingly easier and more difficult living with others. Some things I take for granted they find very foreign and vice versa. Boring is the last word I would describe the experience and hopefuly it won't make for boring reading! We'll see. . . . .